The brain and spinal cord are your body’s central nervous system. The brain is the command center for your body, and the spinal cord is the pathway for messages sent by the brain to the body and from ...

Researchers at Kennedy Krieger Institute’s International Center for Spinal Cord Injury (ICSCI) have made a remarkable ...

Veterinary neurology is a field of veterinary medicine concerned with the anatomy and function of the brain, spinal cord, and nerves of animals. The nervous system controls and regulates the body’s ...

Colored green above, a songbird's cortex, which dominates the bird brain anatomy, functions similarly ... between the thalamus and the spinal cord. The yellow area is the cerebellum, which ...

(Photo Credit: Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Most brain tumors are benign ... Your central nervous system is made up of your brain and spinal cord. About 10%-15% of all brain tumors ...

Spinal cord compression (SCC) occurs in 5% to 30% of the oncology population and affects patient function, comfort, and general quality of life. Patients with lung cancer, breast cancer ...

Doctors use the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) International Standards for Neurological Classification of Spinal Cord Injury when determining the classification of injuries. If there is ...

The brains of today's birds facilitate a level of cognitive prowess and behavioral complexity rivaled only by mammals. But ...

A paralysed man with a severed spinal cord has been able to walk again, thanks to an implant developed by a team of Swiss researchers. It is the first time someone who has had a complete cut to ...

An evidence review on the diagnosis and treatment of tethered spinal cord, a rare condition affecting the nervous system, found that, while surgery could be a good option for symptomatic patients, ...

Australian researchers are about to launch a human trial to treat spinal cord injury by transplanting cells from the noses of paralysed patients into the damaged area. Griffith University ...